David, the New Yorker's Maria Conocova won so much money playing poker

that she temporarily put the poker book she was writing on hold.

What I want to know is what side gig would you like to divert you from journalism?

This is a really good question.

Should we throw out like screenplays and stuff like that?

I was gonna say back when I worked in book publishing, I used to always joke that everybody I knew

and this is not just publishing, this is kind of New York publishing broadly defined.

Everybody I knew had a had a windfall in their 10 year plan.

It's like when I sell my screenplay, when I sell my novel, when I end up

this really untenable existence.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to think of what I would go through.

I've covered mostly professional wrestling and I could give the road answer of like

I've said before, if an angel came down to me when I was like nine years old

and I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna be a wrestler, I might have changed my life.

I don't know that there's any point where I just saw guys like cutting themselves open

or jumping off things onto their back and thought, yeah, that's what I want to do.

But you've covered a lot more various subjects than I have.

Yeah, but I've never, I don't think I've ever seen a sport particularly.

Have you ever covered any like easy sports like ping pong?

Oh, I like that. I saw Michael Phelps swim once.

We used to see kids where it was a be like for an employment center or something.

And somebody to look at the screen and go, I just want to work with people.

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